Reduction * Diederik Aerts and Fritz Rohrlich

Fritz Rohrlich and His Work

Fritz Rohrlich was born in Vienna, Austria, on May 12, 1921, as the only child of the lawyer Egon Rohrlich and his wife Illy, n6e Schwarz. His seven year older half-brother, George, lived with his father's first wife (Rosa Tenzer), but spent his weekends usually at his father's home. George was to play an important role in the life of Fritz. Both of them attended the same high school, the Realg...

Transdisciplinary and Integrative Sciences: Humanity’s Mind and Potential

Cartoon Computation: Quantum-like computing without quantum mechanics

Diederik Aerts 1 and Marek Czachor 1,2 1 Centrum Leo Apostel (CLEA) and Foundations of the Exact Sciences (FUND) Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1050 Brussels, Belgium 2 Katedra Fizyki Teoretycznej i Informatyki Kwantowej Politechnika Gdańska, 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland Abstract We present a computational framework based on geometric structures. No quantum mechanics is involved, and yet the algorithms p...

Meaning-Focused and Quantum-Inspired Information Retrieval

8:30 am 9:00 am Coffee break 9:00 am 9:30 am Conference opening and introduction Derek Raine (Physics); Peter Jackson and Emmanuel Haven (Management) 9:30 am 10:30 am Plenary Talk Professor Edward Nelson Department of Mathematics Princeton University Title of Talk: Stochastic mechanics of particles and fields 10:30 am 11:00am Coffee break 11:00 am 12:30 pm Paper session I.: Meaning. Session Cha...

Application of quantum statistics in psychological studies of decision processes∗

We present a new approach to the old problem of how to incorporate the role of the observer in statistics. We show classical probability theory to be inadequate for this task and take refuge in the epsilon-model, which is the only model known to us capable of handling situations between quantum and classical statistics. An example is worked out and some problems are discussed as to the new view...